Owl Definition and Pronunciation

We had made some progress this year, even though we hadn`t caught any owls. Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your go-to guide to problems in English. Middle English owl, from Old English Å«le; similar to the old owl Uwila in High German The old owl was no longer howling, and the oaks of water had stopped moaning as they bowed their heads. He holds the hours of an owl and does most of the research and exploration of the site. Add ${headword} to one of your following lists or create a new one. Now, under the ivy-laden branches of a large old tree, she frightens an owl with her cry. He looks through his black-rimmed glasses with the solemnity of an owl – but you should hear his songs! As a result, this abundant species is an important resource for fishing owls in winter. Either the resident owls weren`t interested in the frozen sea fish we offered as bait, or the birds weren`t willing to walk under the suspicious net domes to examine them. A contemporary pamphleteer compared it to an owl in the sun, chased by flocks of tiny birds and pecked to death. Before the 12th century, in the sense defined above, the owl saw the fish, approached to take a closer look and was caught.

Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. Others sit on the speaker, their eyes fixed on the speaker like those of an owl. That`s when, when I had accepted our failures, we caught our first owl. Fernandez-Duque discovered that owl monkeys are the only reliable monogamous mammal species. This video corrects this injustice and shows an owl making a butterfly in Lake Michigan. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! The offspring of the owl monkey receive excessive care from their fathers. Responsible for the owl monkey project, which has been studying owl monkeys in Argentina for 18 years.